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LZZR — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:17:25 +0000

2 CharlieBrown8989 Qute interesting! I always thought Yahoo! is plagued with a sort of corporate culture that is rooted in times when Yahoo! was a directory. It seems you've got some interesting facts about Yahoo! management - would you mind telling a bit more about this? I am sure a lot of people are interested to learn more about Yahoo! culture of censorship!

By: LZZR

LZZR — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:10:42 +0000

2 BillyWarhol
Before getting these comments I had no idea how severe the problem of Yahoo censorship on Flickr really is. Flickr censorship seems to have no rational reason! It’s plain stupid to alienate a strong user community and doing this without any warning or explaination is nothing less of profound disrespect!
Of course as Yahoo owns Flickr they would always be able to reply in a way all burocratic machines do: “according to our rules you are totally wrong and we are absolutely right” and there is nothing we can do about it.
The only way out is to host our own communities. Otherwise it will always end up like this. In fact be it Google or Yahoo! or any other big monster they will always be suspisious of any dissent that might grow on those fields of so-called FREE services they provide. Even more they are afraid of political activism and for a good reason – risks of hosting anything politically out of the mainstream far outweight profits such resources can make for the owners. Besides they have their own vested interests too.
PS thanks for pointing out works of Gail Orenstein – these are just brilliant!

By: CharlieBrown8989

CharlieBrown8989 — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:31:06 +0000

I agreed with your observation. Is a few people taking law in their own hand.

Moreover, I am questioning the Power & Political play that the Mid-Range Management & Senior management in Yahoo!

I believes; There are departmental head who is not US citizen have been involved in the National political play.

Whom might acting on the interest of the country that given them the financial & kinds advantage. That is why the National Security & Homeland security have to look at it closely.

From what I see the pornography adv still is a big revenue with major search engines. I doubt that Yahoo! departmental action on Artsy Nudes & Nudes ( of non porno nature ) are inline with their T & C. or TOS!!

It is really a personal issue as I research into Yahoo certain department doing for over 2 years.

I am sorry you have to goes through all these.

Web 2.0 or Web 3.0 era is the era of e-Communities.

No one can act like imperialism any long. As long as the community do the right thing to promo the healthy culture & bring the people together & closer on the web.

Divide & rules would not work!!

Thanks.

By: BillyWarhol

BillyWarhol — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:57:17 +0000

Yeah no fucking shit eh!!

What Yahoo!’s Flickr did to my friend Gail Orenstein in Deleting ALL her Work incl. over 3,400 Photographs + over 20,000 Comments that had over 1 Million Views from Flickr Users is nothing short of an abomination!!

Fucking Flickr Kangaroo Court*

Disgusting + Pathetic!!

Peace*